more success for the host nation on olympic ice with a bronze medal in short track of the russian team to figure skating gold with a commanding performance in the team. so this sounds with dylan for its economy at risk by now really approving a proposal to keep foreigners out in defiance of a long held agreement with the brussels. there's a lot of this to have been forgotten were just collateral damage and as he travels to the u.s. state of arkansas to check out on the residents of mayflower who say last year's oil spill that been no choice but to free leave the area to protect their health.

this is o.c. international coming to live from moscow my name is you thanks for joining us it's day three of the we're telling picks in sochi and another medal for the hosts on originally a south korean has taken bronze for the russian short track team let's go let's now go live to sochi and our seas postcard who is standing by for us that are hi there poll so tell us more about this latest bronze for russia. well the russian foreign minister you know me in the lighter side here in sochi. to cheer on day three victor secured russia. to the medal ensured struck speedskating he won bronze in the men's fifteen hundred meters by you may be thinking the victor on isn't a traditional russian name while he used to compete for his native south korea but before. not with these nations not governing body want to receive russian

citizenship in two thousand and eleven in total or a five gold medals to be decided throughout the course of. the very latest medals table and see how it looks you can see all the canada now top the medals table they've been no way down into second place and the netherlands are there with their all out as well all three of those nations to gold medals to the name of michael to me that russia will be looking to add part of their tally in the biathlon events. which has just got underway on township is competing in that he's going to be looking to put the disappointment of his fourth place finish in the men's ten k. sprint behind him. now elsewhere on monday where she's female college began their campaign with a seven four victory over denmark where they skip it by on a sidenote over who are some are saying could become the poster girl for the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics she turned to the sport after a career as

a model and she says she has absolutely no regrets about her career change. when i was very young i had a choice i was not sure if i wanted to be or naturally or a model i got into a modeling academy for teenagers but after a few classes i realized i liked sport better since then i have never thought about modeling i wanted to exercise practice and when i enjoy an active lifestyle i enjoy travelling to competitions actually come to think of it the modeling business has a lot of competition as well but back then i just made a choice based on how i felt in my heart. while calling he's a relatively new sport to russia this is the very first time they've entered a mad men's team into the competition. into the first match to great britain seven for today but it seems the culling is a crazy beginning to a sweep the nation would have a look at some. people across the country tightening the. the school is improvising

using whatever equipment they can to try and replicate the professionals from. the cowbells york so just by the fact that you tell his teacher russia there's going to be a school that is here to stay but one school that does have a rich heritage of this country is of course ice hockey and some of the world's best arrived in sochi today with the n h l stars touching down now it's one of the most eagerly anticipated events in russia do you have high hopes for gold medal but the legendary goaltender. who helped of course like the culture on friday during the opening ceremony he says it is one of the most open competitions and it's. definitely one of the. there are many strong teams that these games canada the u.s. finland sweden in fact all of them a very strong it's hard to predict who's going to win the hockey stephanie going to be very interesting i think we're about to witness one of the best told immense embrace in the years. to excitement is building ahead of the men's competition

rushes i think games in three days time against living in. pole thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date. and over the many inspirational stories and the jamaican books late again find itself at the center one of them they were forced to raise funds via twitter to be able to compete have the games and then lost their luggage on a rival i'll see call to one of the famous trio on the team coach as well. i love the people there are real love here makes us feel like we're stars but you know stars is something that shines really bright which is a jamaica team in all of the you know across all of cyclists and i hope so but see what we're doing throughout the world and how the world loves us i know a lot of younger kids in jamaica wanted to be a part of jamaica bobsled team are going to say thanks to the world support we've

had and another thing i'd like to say is thanks to mr putin for putting this on and the russian people for volunteering to doing this this is one of the best games that i've seen and it's a great great opportunity for the jamaican team to be here and represent jamaica who are here coming out of the underdog so just watch us. meanwhile in washington lawmakers security warnings about the winter games one republican congressional needs i went as far as to claim he's never seen any greater threats in his lifetime i was asleep don't appear to shadow. so five rethinks minimizing is running like clockwork and everything's just going really really well there hasn't been any problems as of as of today my parents have been a little bit worried they just might just be careful what you do and really wear the uniform when you have to you know when you don't need it just be a bit half of the security is really good so it's better than we thought it would be i had a really great time here and i have nothing bad to say so far well organized and

people are really friendly here and having a good time. russia's gold winning performance in the figure skating cause the adoring home crowd to blow the roof all the eyes bug arena in sochi but there have been some rumors circling in the media claiming the competition could have been rigged and we called top with the two thousand and two olympic ice dancing champion frenchman iran to get his thoughts. in figure skating there always be a lot of talking you know people are talking and they believe they can. master and manage where does happening on the ice but the only thing that matters is how the figure skaters are performing on the ice you can make somebody who falls to win you can change the course everybody has to skate their best to do something at those talking those trying to change the course of the competition is just very bad for

a sport and i'm sorry that he'd say it's happening again and people are talking about that again because things have been made to change that sort of things so that sports would be more fair and that this caters would just perform and. and that the best is the one we should win. and going back for a slightly different take on russia steve let's not. arts and culture correspondent martin andrews. scheme special about the jersey the players will be wary of their olympic bottles on ice march and how exciting that is so function is just as competitive as themselves it seems. absolutely let's try and forget some of those uniforms we saw on the opening ceremony let's focus on the nike jerseys because of course today they were unveiled

russia's team that is the national hockey team men's and women's but it's also important that nike all my other people call it also designed kits for various countries in fact over ten countries including america canada and finland and for many people the jerseys are really emblematic of what people wear for the winter olympics and they really do give you know some spirits whether it's for leisure activities or whether you're a sports man or woman yourselves what's interesting is the technology behind things jerseys why well because they're made of seventy three percent polyester in other words parts plastic and since the year twenty ten mark you've actually used over two billion recycled that's correct so next time you're wearing a jersey don't stand too close to a flame because most of it is made of drinks but you could have used a few years ago and earlier our team met up with ten black the creative director of nike who explains more about this fascinating technology. what we because it is the

home team because they are in russia with the crowd around them it was great to share the symbolism with everyone exactly let's not hide it so. here. reflecting their gold medals and then four gold stars on each shoulder on the home care. is that we're finding new ways to create new materials and one of the things we're very very proud of is that these jerseys are made predominantly from recycled water bottles jerseys use about seventeen water bottles and socks used about five so we know we're keeping waste from going into landfills while we're creating performance products you. know you can see the red kid there but if they have now you can see the right kit

that but in fact they have two kids red for home wiping away and they really are quite different the red kit that you saw. basically it's far more traditional. in design you'll see that it has four different golden crowns of it that's for the four triumphant championships they won previously it also has the russian writing they can it's important to note that the colors of red white and blue they really do give the russian team a sense of identity and make them stand out from the crowd in a russia moving on to the white kids. quite different than the red kid that we're using here in sochi it's a contemporary design featuring a certain crest of course of the russian and of course of the russian empire which is the double headed eagle. and really it gives a sense of russian pride and it's very very interesting in fact when the team members actually live up together it really does give a very very interesting image perspective here so. you know i'm sure is live

from sochi thank you very much indeed very interesting indeed and if you want to share any of your limp experiences with the well don't hesitate to submit videos to all she's very facebook page and of course go all the updates on the results that as well as you can go that to share your comments on. views on the sporting spectacle you can also post any questions you'd like to hear or see posed to the athletes we interview and we've got our sports spectacle special coming up at five thirty pm g.m.t. and don't miss. that would all down dates from the olympic from the olympic games with kate partridge here with us. the g twenty four do you promise this is the ultimate in exhilarating winter in. germany and you see now a make over now and the rest of our look at news team for sochi twenty four taking

. on art. this was and my have jeopardize its access to the e.u. market for the sake of curbing the number of immigrants coming into the country the new law which will install quotas for foreign workers goes against long held agreements with brussels. many believe further collaboration with the e.u. could now be in question one member of the european parliament has warned swiss relations come as a package and switzerland can't pick and choose which policies to share with the blog he moans that the country will no longer be able to rely on the economic and trade benefits that came along with the treaty. voted to shut the door to european union workers setting up a showdown with brussels as well as a potential exit from the single european market now the so-called stop mass immigration initiative was the brainchild of the right wing swiss people's party

which wants strict quotas on foreigners or switzerland to essentially abandon its free movement of people treaty with the e.u. and supporters the we've talked to say that they're worried immigration is driving up rents that it's undercutting local workers and that is burdening public services no opponents would argue that immigration caps would in fact cripple economic growth and experts do say that the swiss in column e. is. not despite for labor especially when it comes to folks who have skills to work in fields like health care and i.t. where there's a big need for skilled workers but despite the very real economic concerns despite the fact that on the one the fear is just three percent many voters will ultimately swayed by the argument that switzerland simply cannot take in any more people now in order to understand why you really do have to look at the numbers about a quarter of the country's eight million residents aren't swiss there's been a huge uptick in immigration in fact about eighty thousand new immigrants came to switzerland last year alone the vote will likely mean severe repercussions with

brussels you have to remember that switzerland isn't a member of the e.u. but it has signed on to a lot of the blocks policies in order to gain access to the european markets for switzerland sells more than half of everything that it produces and with five hundred million customers there's a lot of money at stake here a historic vote that is likely to have a significant impact on the swiss economy as well as on relations with the country's european neighbors reporting in burn for r t and lucy catherine of. its width. and its attempts to do with the growing discontent of you're a skeptic the british immigration minister has resigned and revelation didn't have permission to walk in the u.k. this condo. only deepens the nationwide debate on the influx of foreign walk is just two weeks after bracing lifted restrictions on bug areas and very manias under a million so would a film and the piece as in the wider context the outcome of this with a referendum was predictable the swiss are perfectly entitled to to pass this

legislation. there's absolutely no problem with that as far as the european union's concerned but of course there's no such thing as a free lunch why have they done it and i think it's partly if you want a reaction to it if you want the media and the fact it was whipped up in switzerland by a party on the extreme right we're seeing that across the european union it's like either in the european elections in france and in holland in in the united kingdom least that the far right parties will be either first or second in the european elections so this is a phase we're going through this is a consequence of the financial crisis. coming up later this hour on crime and punishment in comfort. and here. is my cold. like with the frito thing believe it and also this is on should a prison or a pull from inside an experimental facenda say no way convicts feel very much at

home. there's a see here when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet she looks like a fairly simple ship but really she's not simple little. handful of people able to have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is at the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we've undertaken a unique operation in. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers. right from the sea. the first trip. and i think the church.

on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on mom. welcome back saucy international. nearly a year out of a pipeline rupture caused a massive oil spill in the u.s. stage of consort locals are still suffering dizziness headaches and nausea the cleanup began almost immediately but that didn't stop people moving out to safer areas his game natural visit of the site. almost a year after two hundred thousand gallons of heavy crude spilled onto their streets residents of mayflower in arkansas are striving to leave the town here in mayflower

for sale signs are everywhere almost every house on the street is on sale before the spill this was a place where people wanted to move in to enjoy the beautiful nature around many didn't even know there was a pipeline running on their houses and now they just want out many have already left and jerrel one of them i tried to stay here i tried to just be away you know as much as i could but if it rained i could not stay here because it would all see through the. all again you know the where the ground was dry it would kind of i guess in case it then when it rained all those vapors would come back she says like many other residents of mayflower she started having constant headaches and coughing after the spill i have friends that live just behind me that are still here that don't have a place to go they have just small children you don't have to look at the kids in in twenty years when they get to find out something's wrong and they say well why

didn't we leave mom want everybody healthfully well some people just aren't able to pick up and leave like that exxon wrote back to us saying that a unified command comprised of exxon representatives as well as officials from the state and federal environmental services has deemed all areas affected by the mayflower spill now safe to live in but many of the residents don't buy it and their homes are not selling so i would say that the number of homes sold in my flower has dropped at least fifty sixty percent but arkansas spill is only a fraction of a new oil pipeline leaks it's estimated that between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve u.s. pipeline spilled an average of more than sweeping one million gallons of hazardous liquids per year plans for the keystone x.l. pipeline a massive project that would. from canada soil since two refineries in texas have caused many to worry that they may become collateral damage in the way of big oil like the residents of mayflower arkansas there's

a lot of us that have been forgotten or were just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on our team with a deadline for the pullout of american troops from afghanistan just approaching for him to paves its retreat with money pumping some three hundred million dollars into what they're calling the end a war economy had to r.t. dot com for more details. and also line with comes under the scrutiny of police in finland they say the online encyclopedia could be illegally collecting money from its donors when their story is just a click away. with no death penalty under maximum prison sentence of twenty one years norway's penitentiary system is among the most humane in the wild and now the country's going a step further with an experimental jail giving convicts access to pretty much everything except freedom. reports and very. smart.

like with the freedom thing. has been living here for nearly four years getting an education working as a car mechanic and serving his fifteen and a half year long sentence in jail we caught up in the morning talk show taking a berth as you go to drop old school. to school you have. relaxed like normal life just we are back wall this is holden one of the most humane prisons in the world bills in two thousand and ten it's an example of norway's new experimental approach to penitentiary facilities. here the roughly two hundred fifty prisoners it houses cook for themselves and for staff members with beef sound and beer steaks among the items on the menu take walks in the park pray and make art do outdoor and indoor sports like and how like you see here the betterment we can make

a place for for maybe one or both of us is going to be a good place to call just to relax. get out from their cells you know hold on has a library and a school for those who want to either to continue the education they were getting before going to jail or getting a new one all together so yeah you can have some of them to question her literature history math chemistry physics you name it all are taught to the inmates . in the room and that they are going to thank for the next ten years to continue to. inmates also have access to the photoshop cameras grocery store workshop and a mechanic's shop and even. my personal favorite a sound studio. didn't have

a system in this life that was looser than the screw loose in the working life never think the important nothing. and they come in here and learn it so far the prison hasn't seen one riot or an attempt to break out and when we were inside i couldn't really see why anyone would ever want to frankly i'm stunned it's going to take time for me to process what we've seen here today but what's clear is that even though this is one of the most humane prisons in the wall it still is a place to punish criminals with strict rules security and limitations and since it's been operating only for a few years right now it's too early to say how effective this new penitentiary format is you what is going off r t reporting from norway. just ahead takes you on a cruise to the bone chilling. but if you're watching us and the u.k. you're going underground with what's causing.

the alleged phone call between the assistant secretary of state and the u.s. ambassador to ukraine has created quite a controversy in the call like smug british colonisers cash in africa that basically say that that need of books to fill he's not fit for the government of the of the need to become prime minister they also mention needing the help of the un to get this thing glued whatever that means although the authenticity of this phone call has not been confirmed but certainly hasn't been denied this reminds me a lot of the snowden leaks independent journalists for years had been writing about government spying but it took a snowden to shove it into people's faces and confirm that it was really going on we've heard from people like ron paul jesse ventura and many journalists that the u.s. state department uses a horde of international grant receivers and local political organizations to try

to consciously and directly control sovereign nations and overthrow regimes they don't like and this phone call is legit this is the same level of undeniable evidence that snowden brought to the table to be fair during the cold war i could kind of see the justification to meddle in other countries so the soviets would create world communism but now who is the enemy that justifies a korean regime change there is no such anime a fascist my opinion. it

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in early september the arctic northern syria is a busy maritime highway. full of russia's nuclear powered icebreakers or at sea clearing a path for shipping. the crews here have a saying when you're in the arctic you have the whole world your feet. through follows russia's northern boundaries offering the shortest passage between europe and asia passing through seven northern cities. well then three good bye horns.

the nuclear power it's time you leave. the northern sea route despite passing through ten times the crew will never adjust the ship. it's quite likely they'll never pull into a port either with a crew. morning good morning yes this one though you're a beautiful girl diana don't forget your hat. sukhamoy has ruined my hair now.

and the captain and the first officer said here they don't like holes in their bread i have to put more bread out because the navigators sit here and they eat a lot. of the possibly the most unlike the tables to be laid properly he likes everything to be good and he likes beautiful women actually he just loves old women. just like all men now like pies with fish cabbage but. i should know what they're like by now. the floors icy cold and my feet are cold too. on everyone here way or something warm on their feet because they would just freeze the weiss yes it is cold here and then we are in the arctic.